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mircea_popescu: "look, fifteen people put in fifty bitcoin each! THIS IS HUGE NEWS!!!1"
mircea_popescu: Aside from the amount invested, this investment round is also notable for the number of investors involved. The firm lists 15 in its statement announcing the deal, which would mean an average of $40,000 each (although the investment is likely to be unevenly spread).
mircea_popescu: Safello, which also saw Blockchain.info CEO Nicolas Cary invest, is currently revamping its website, and promises a range of new services in the coming months.
mircea_popescu: Swedish bitcoin exchange Safello has secured a $600,000 investment that it hopes will push it into the wider European market. The exchange, which launched its service last August, can now count bitcoin luminaries Erik Voorhees and Roger Ver among its investors.
mircea_popescu: dt discussing the safello thing with gweedo, who thinks he is an investor.
mircea_popescu: never before has a whole culture been so thoroughly discriminated against by the forces of reality.
mircea_popescu: or w/e, by the time you manage to brush off all the idiocy you're 50 and ready to retire.
mircea_popescu: basically it's, if you're under 30 you're too stupid to do much anyway. if you're over 30 and us you're too stupid to ever recover
mircea_popescu: it's this incredible brainrot people in the us and over 30 have to fight with.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow dt magically doesn't understand what (one of) the appeal of mpex is.
mircea_popescu: "Having just gone through this from the other side of the fence I thought I would share some perspective. The reality is no successful startup founder wants hundreds or thousands of investors. Contrary to the silly games you see on "crypto exchanges" with startups issuing billions of shares to thousands of investors no founder wants that. Less is better when it comes to investors because it means less overhead and m
mircea_popescu: yeah. S.ASS. Assburger, inc. An aspie-rational food product company, and MORE.
mircea_popescu: actually this company could come up for its first product
mircea_popescu: then you'll have to have 500 mixed bottles and people will argue over which was used.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones except if people want different proportions.
mircea_popescu: "hei guise, wouldn't it be cool if ketchup and mustard came in the same bottle ?"
mircea_popescu: bones` this sounds smart but it is really just a moving of the trash under the rug
mircea_popescu: rather than as to repeat the history of common mistakes.
mircea_popescu: do fail in such a manner as to advance the common truths
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves never quote me on this or i'll kill you, but, the only reason this hjolds true is because us nuttery about "encouraging" people and so on and so forth. in other cultures the opposite holds true.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel quotation marks to be supplied by the parser.
mircea_popescu: whereas if you think you're competent enough to create x and need no improvement you have ~50-50 odds to actually be competent enough.
mircea_popescu: in fact, empirically, if you think you're not competent enough to create x you must improve you have ~50-50 odds to actually be competent enough.
mircea_popescu: but what if you lack the metacognitive capabilities to see this ?
mircea_popescu: omg look at this, there's no anaxagoras on teh english web
mircea_popescu: and /me beams at having injected into conversation like the oldest remaining text as well as various other classical bits
mircea_popescu: even so. no presumption as to your body or mind was made.
mircea_popescu: that which is is, and necessarily is, whereas that which is not is not
mircea_popescu: doesn't depend on anything, if it isn't it couldn't possibly cause.
mircea_popescu: for once death is, you are no longer, and while you still are, death is not.
mircea_popescu: if not ignorance, then what ? if not hunger leads you to sate, then what ?
mircea_popescu: deadweasel you aware of the neoplatonist loophole you got there right ?
mircea_popescu: most of the high ticket scammers are going for that angle.
mircea_popescu: "any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from turpid stupidity"
mircea_popescu: pankkake i think that may be leftover from the old days of cobol horror.
mircea_popescu: what, everyone gets a banker certificate with their birth certificate now ?
mircea_popescu: im really looking forward to clauses like if i ==== j then else if i === j then else if i == j then else if i = j then.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of magical php, any language out there which isn't served enough by 3 and has 4 or more ?
mircea_popescu: there not existing any malice anyway, their character === their trustability.
mircea_popescu: i shall now charge myself for self-zinging commentary a 5 atc tax.
mircea_popescu: because it is impossible to establish malice at all, a difference predicated upon establishing malice is meaningless.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones this revolves around the concept of meaningful difference.
mircea_popescu: they are a community. in 1800s bucharest there was a place called "podul calicilor", which pretty much means "the bridge of the scammer and beggar comunity".
mircea_popescu: the entire alt community couldn't burn down one of my pubes if someone lent them a stair and matches.
mircea_popescu: "tysat, if you believe they are pump and dumps, seriously who do you think is behind it? mtgox? the btc elites? honestly, if someone is pumping and dumping in an organised way, as a means of screwing new investors then the entire alt community should hunt them down"
mircea_popescu: incredible how people 20 years ago could like... you know, program computers.
mircea_popescu: jurov: afaik gpg never saves unencrypted keys to disk << indeed. it's not made by the power rangers, not using qt, etc.
mircea_popescu: he has one butterfly wing coming out of his shoulderblade